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The Man Within My Head

Travel writer Pico Iyer examines his own obsession with famed English novelist and fellow globetrotter Graham Greene.
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading

How one woman used books to cope with her sister's death.
Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles

A biographer struggles to reconcile the many contradictions in the character of feminist icon and author Tillie Olsen.

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Mae Azango has gone undercover to report on female circumcision, a rite of the Sande society in Liberia that is performed on young girls.

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When journalist Mae Azango wrote about a secret women's circumcision ritual in Liberia, she received death threats.